Ask a teacher on Summer Break

[Cecelia]

C'mon ...you sneak one in between classes. We're friends here ...We never tell.

lol!  I wish.  I make it a rule never to drink alcohol unless I've got at least two days afterward before going back to work. 

She deals with kids all day.  She probably drinks even more than I do before surgery...

Some of them can be a real pain.  Especially one who insisted I follow ALL the school rules (I usually don't.  Like gum?  Yeah,  I'm a gum addict.  So I let the kids in my class chew gum, as long as they don't put it under the desk and spit it out when they leave.  I'm also okay with kids having a soda as long as they aren't constantly opening it).  So glad I only had him one year...

Maths can also only be learned through practice... that's where homework comes in, if there isn't enough time to learn the techniques in class.
How many hours a week do kids practice maths VS hours practicing those cheerleading stunts?

As for the punishment... that thing of making kids do laps if they get something wrong... imagine if you got some maths exercise wrong and the teacher made you count to 1000! LOL!!

When you say European History, do you go way back to Celts and Vikings and Romans and Gauls and Goths, or is it mostly 18th century and onward (to keep up with the US?) What does that AP mean?

Yes, but I think there's such thing as too much math practice.  I see kids with like 50 problems to do.  That includes my own kids.  Practice is good, but too much practice can make you hate math.  Cheerleading is fun!  How much they practice those stunts each week varies.   We typically practice a few hours each week--maybe a little more when we're practicing for a competition.

Can't imagine counting to 1000.  But I doubt it would be any more helpful than the laps!  It'd take at least 5 minutes, assuming no breaks. 

AP Euro goes from around 1400 (starting around the Habsburgs) to present.  AP means Advance Placement.  Which means it's worth more than normal classes.  It's a little like Honors.  It's basically a college level course for high school students. There's also an exam they have to take to get credit for the course.  And it's actually fairly difficult--though I haven't had a student fail yet.  Something I'm particularly proud of!  (I have had students fail my other classes, though not too many).